Re: XML outline view

Tim Boudreau wrote:
> Jesse Glick wrote:
> 
>> Tim Boudreau wrote:
>>
>>> I should probably zip you a copy of the entire sources for the
>>> NetBeans book in DocBook XML.  When your new code will handle that
>>> without a hiccup, it's ready.  The old XML tree view took half an
>>> hour to parse it and update.
>>
>>
>>
>> FWIW: on my laptop, the SAX-based outline view can show an outline for 
>> the master file for this book (cca. 2Mb of XML in total) in about two 
>> seconds (with a warm disk cache). Not fast, but tolerable, especially 
>> if you have the Navigator in sliding mode most of the time (so the 
>> list is computed if and when you press Ctrl-7). I don't have the old 
>> tree view around to compare; seems to be have been deleted.
> 
> 
> Cool.  I did send Marek a zip of the book XML, so he's got it to play with.
> 
> I think the biggest argument against using anything DOM-like in this 
> kind of context is that it's going to assume a well formed, parsable 
> document - and most of the time when an XML file is being edited, that's 
> not what you have.

While we're talking about parsing mangled XML, here's an interesting 
project that you might be able to use directly - a SAX style parser 
specifically for doing something reasonable with *broken* XML:

http://mercury.ccil.org/~cowan/XML/tagsoup/

-Tim